With the city's smaller public works trash collectors unable to navigate the snow and ice, the city's refuse removal crews are dumping the trash bins into the street and using a heavier knuckleboom truck it pick it up, according to a city news release.

In November, the city of Hampton asked Del. Gordon Helsel, R-Poquoson, to submit legislation that would, if approved, grant the city permission to levy a boat decal fee that would act as another source of revenue.

Virginia has embraced a national program to give veterans more health care choices, but 42 senators — including both from the Old Dominion — have "serious concerns" about its implementation on a national level.

Five local lawyers and one local judge spoke before a joint panel of the Courts of Justice committee on Monday, making their case as to why they should get judicial seats in Newport News and York County.

Somebody decided to get cute on Twitter during the recent snow, creating an account in the name of Hampton City Schools Superintendent Linda Shifflette and announcing that schools were closed — before Shifflette had made a decision and tweeted it on her own account.